Spirituality: Listening begins the healing process

8:56 AM,
Jun. 26, 2014

Written by

Norris Burkes
Spirtuality

In the summer of 2007, I took a break from the usual cafeteria food to meet a colleague in a restaurant two blocks from the hospital where I worked. With the mercury climbing toward 100, I found a shaded shortcut past the office of an obstetrician who occasionally would perform abortions for medical reasons.

As I neared the office, I saw two people carrying protest signs. The first protester was a man waving a placard with pictures of aborted fetuses. As if it weren't hot enough already, he was making every effort to heat up the abortion debate by harassing anyone who neared the doctor's office.